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Don't forget to register for our October #IdentitiesEvent!

'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'

With @jamellag.bsky.social, Chaired by @aaronwinter.bsky.social
In collaboration with Sociology at Lancaster University

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Watching all the videos of everyday ppl’s resistance to ICE has me thinking about this observation by Audre Lorde, on what US freedom fighters can learn from South Africa

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor · I do not have to be you: Audre Lorde’s Legacy Lorde never had to persuade her comrades about a strategy, tactic or new idea, lose an argument in order to maintain a...

‘Audre Lorde described poetry as “an expression, with love, of some piece of the world in which the poet lives”. But she also made clear that her world was expanding.’

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (@keeanga.bsky.social): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Somewhere Else to Go Or why I’m still speaking about complaining

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Such brilliant news! So many congratulations! @mckenziewark.bsky.social @susanstryker.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

'Fear and hopelessness': study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south

Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics
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#ICYMI: Jason Ralph's video abstract for his article, "American Pragmatism, the Frankfurt School, and the future of Critical International Relations Theory" is now available on our website!

The article is #OpenAccess, so be sure to check it out here 👇

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Our next #IdentitiesEvent!

'From Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'

@uofgsociology.bsky.social @uofgsps.bsky.social @uofgsocsci.bsky.social @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @jamellag.bsky.social

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The early bird deadline for this is this coming Monday, but it is always free for undergrads. Send your students!

A thought-provoking discussion of Audre Lorde and of Alexis's wonderful book. @keeanga.bsky.social makes an interesting case that Lorde's politics of coalition and difference departed from the identity politics of CRC, and she's right on about Lorde's focus on the personal dimension of revolution 1/

There’s still time to register for our Autumn Open Days 🍂

If you’re thinking about studying at Leeds, make sure to join us on Saturday 4 or 18 October 📅

Here’s some top tips from some of our current students to help you make the most of your day ✅

Register now 👇

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Selma Dabbagh | On the Flotilla In 2010, I worked as a lawyer for the British passengers on a flotilla trying to carry humanitarian aid to Gaza through...

‘Democratically elected governments are enabling a genocide by supplying weapons to the perpetrators. This could stop tomorrow. More and more people globally are recognising that, and doing something about it.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the Global Sumud flotilla: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

In Pursuit of Marx's Theory of Crisis

*In Pursuit of Marx's Theory of Crisis* by Samezō Kuruma, edited and translated by Michael Schauerte.

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The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution

First up: *The Communist and the Revolutionary Liberal in the Second American Revolution: Comparing Karl Marx and Frederick Douglass in Real-Time* by Kyle A. Edwards and August H. Nimtz.

Scottish parliament votes in favour of allowing councils to cap rent increases Legislation hailed as ‘historic step for fixing rigged housing market’ but campaigners say bolder action needed The Scottish parliament has voted overwhelmingly for “historic” long-term rent controls – a first across the UK – as part of a wide-ranging housing bill that campaigners argue has been “gutted” of its most progressive measures. The provision for ministers to designate rent control zones, allowing councils to limit rent increases to one percentage point above inflation, up to a maximum rent increase of 6%, was hailed as a “historic step for fixing the rigged housing market” by the Scottish Greens. Continue reading...

Scottish parliament votes in favour of allowing councils to cap rent increases

Women behind the lens: ‘I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her’ Indian artist Indu Antony was mesmerised when she first saw 78-year-old Cecilia and has put her at the heart of a project that interrogates women’s safety in public spaces and celebrates friendship

Women behind the lens: ‘I thought, who is this woman? I need to know her’

Won’t you join RIS and EJIS for #BISA2026?

James Baldwin smokes as he listens to a question from the audience at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, Feb. 16, 1973. (Regis Bossu/Stars and Stripes) Image comes from: https://www.stripes.com/history/1973-02-27/viewpoint:-james-baldwin-1892518.html

Baldwin: A change, real change is brought about when the people make a change. The poet or the revolutionary can articulate the necessity, but until the people themselves apprehend it nothing can happen. When the people have taken the necessity, when the movement starts moving, then the world moves.

This Week's New Titles New titles available this week: Surviving the 21st Century by Saúl Alvídrez, Noam Chomsky and José Mujica [book-strip index="1"] Buy a copy of Surviving the 21st Century and get 30% off any of the sel...

We have five new books out this week, including Surviving the 21st Century by Saúl Alvídrez, Noam Chomsky and José Mujica, How to be Real by Stephen Frosh and three new additions to our Essential John Berger series

The Definitive History of Canada’s Residential School Shame | The Tyee Ten years ago, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its landmark report. Everyone should read it.

Every Canadian should know about Dr. Peter Bryce and his damning report, which was unceremoniously shelved by the federal government.

Indigenous children didn’t “just” die from disease. They were forced into residential schools despite govt knowing the risks.
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Articles for the Special Issue on Utopia and Failure are now available on FirstView in the European Journal of Social Theory

See Irretrievable failure: Life in the ruins of utopian dreaming by
Martin Coward and Debbie Lisle

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Our next #IdentitiesEvent is open for registration!

'From #Colonial Subjects to #Black Nations: Racializing the Caribbean within Global #Blackness'

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Women Who Dared Women Who Dared

Out now! Our latest book, "Women Who Dared", is released today from Edinburgh University Press. You can purchase direct from @edinburghup.bsky.social via their website or at all good bookshops: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-women-w...

Why are there not more women in philosophy?

RIS is teaming up with the BISA Africa and International Studies Working Group to announce a prize for the best early-career researcher paper for 2026!

Find out more information on the BISA website 👉 buff.ly/tNh8d8d

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Brillaint article “Fail better”: Utopia, Rosa Luxemburg, and learning from failure by @mmrovlje.bsky.social is also part of the Special Issue on Utopia and Failure

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Incendiary Schemes Charlotte Rosen reviews Bench Ansfield's new book, Born in Flames—a stunning and revelatory analysis of the systematic, profitable, and deadly arson schemes that were perpetrated by landlords and…

After the Civil Rights era, racism became legally defined by explicit intent, allowing systemic violence to hide behind insurance “risk” assessments. This piece argues that Ansfield’s "Born in Flames" exposes this racial capitalism.

@charlotteerosen.bsky.social in @proteanmag.com

Scholars of utopianism have sought to integrate failure as a valuable moment in envisioning new worlds. Yet, as our open-access article of the week asserts, these accounts sidestep the lived politics of defeat.

By @mmrovlje.bsky.social

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University of Leeds Centre for Contemporary Political Theory (CCPT) Research Events 2025/26 Semester 1 Monday, 27th October Research Seminar Justifying Human Rights as the Rights of Humans Dr Jesse Tomalty (Bergen) and Dr Kerri Woods (Leeds) 4–5.30pm, Fine Art Building, Seminar Room 2.09 Monday, 17th November Research Seminar Solidarity, Migration and Imagining Otherwise at Europe’s Borders Dr Gemma Bird (Liverpool) 4–5.30pm, Fine Art Building, Seminar Room 2.09 Monday 1st December Research Seminar From Boundary-Making to Domination: Integrating Wittgenstein and Bourdieu to Explain International Hierarchy Hengfeng Zhao (Leeds) 4–5.30pm, Fine Art Building, Seminar Room 2.09 Please contact James Souter with any queries (J.Souter@leeds.ac.uk)

CCPT's programme of events for the coming term is now out! We're looking forward to the discussions at our upcoming research seminars.

On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials.

“If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener